I posted last week that South Korea sent the third largest number of students to the United States, behind China and India. What I noticed today, however, that in addition to students, there are 8,301 Korean professors and researchers working in the United States. This places Korea second behind China with 17,000.
Interestingly enough, while the number of foreign students in the U.S. has decreased, the number of foreign scholars in the U.S. has increased 8 percent over the last year. The number of U.S. students studying abroad was 191,321, up 9.6 percent from the previous year. In particular, there were 4,737 Americans studying in China, an increase of some 90 percent.
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Over here in Montgomery County in MD, all you have to do is take a look at NIH campus in Bethesda. You will see so many Korean PHD Post Doc exchange researchers over here in US National Institute of Health.
Proliferation of high-quality inkjet technology has made it easier than ever to become a scholar nowadays.
This is not news to me as I am an elementary school teacher in a Big
Ten college town. For some reason, our district has many Korean kids, including some parachute kids who take advantage of free public education, but few Chinese kids even though Chinese students and Chinese professors outnumber Koreans at the local university.